Friday, May 02, 2025
Thursday, May 01, 2025
John Helmer latest
https://johnhelmer.net/what-deal-will-president-putin-make-with-the-man-who-rules-the-world-but-not-the-battlefield/
Tuesday, April 29, 2025
Alastair Crooke on Kellog plan follow ups
https://strategic-culture.su/news/2025/04/28/kellogg-framework-disaster-for-trump/
Saturday, April 26, 2025
On Paigham attack
https://www.livemint.com/news/india/pahalgam-terror-attack-pakistan-denies-any-role-we-have-nothing-to-do-with-it-11745398989014.html
Friday, April 25, 2025
Aurelian tries to explain war
https://aurelien2022.substack.com/p/what-is-this-war-of-which-you-speak "So in this essay I will try to do two things. One is to explain in simple terms the words and concepts involved in this “debate,” and to set out what people would actually mean, if they were only capable of using them correctly. The other is to ask what all this talk of “war with Iran” and “war with China” actually signifies, and whether those who talk airily of such things have any idea what they are talking about. (Short answer, no.)"
Alastair Crooke on Ukraine and Iran
https://thealtworld.com/alastair_crooke/a-trump-deal-juggling-war-easy-war-and-negotiation "Aurelien observes:
“So we are dealing with limited horizons; limited imagination and limited experience. But there’s one other determining factor: The U.S. system is recognised to be sprawling, conflictual – and, as a result, largely impervious to outside influence – and even to reality. Bureaucratic energy is devoted almost entirely to internal struggles, which are carried out by shifting coalitions in the administration; in Congress; in Punditland and in the media. But these struggles are, in general, about [domestic] power and influence – and not about the inherent merits of an issue, and [thus] require no actual expertise or knowledge”.
“The system is large and complex enough that you can make a career as an ‘Iran expert’, say, inside and outside government, without ever having visited the country or speaking the language – by simply recycling standard wisdom in a way that will attract patronage. You will be fighting battles with other supposed ‘experts’, within a very confined intellectual perimeter, where only certain conclusions are acceptable”."
Thursday, April 24, 2025
John Helmer and Ray McGovern with ‘Dialogue Works’, wide ranging discussion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgG4ZmTZQww
A Tik-Tok message about China and America
https://www.tiktok.com/@00panchopantera/video/7493046392588422431?q=Tarifs%20china%20revolution&t=1745442332850
via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1EtbtbK-Sw
Tuesday, April 22, 2025
Dani Rodrick and Tyler Cowen discuss tariffs
https://utk.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Embed.aspx?id=f1f58256-87ce-4613-a453-b2c0014f28e0
check also https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2025/04/my-debate-with-dani-rodrik-about-tariffs-and-free-trade.html#comments
Trump tariff plans
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2025/04/phase-1-impose-tariffs-phase-2-phase-3-profit.html#more
Every single person who works for the White House on trade seems to have a different idea of how to (ab)use the tariffs. There seems to be no big common plan to which they are all aligned to. This won't work.
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